Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey
(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter associated with 134 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley
ink and watercolour on artist's board, circa 1928-1930
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by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
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by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
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by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
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by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13078
by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
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by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
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by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1885
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by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
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by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
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by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
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by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13121
(Joan) Pernel Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1901-1902
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Unknown man; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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Unknown man; Lytton Strachey; unknown woman; Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1912
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1912
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probably by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1913
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probably by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1913
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by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, circa 1913
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
NPG Ax140438
Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Philip Edward Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Oliver Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, May 1917
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Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence); Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG x13897
Lytton Strachey; (Reginald) Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood; (William) Miles Malleson
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Philip Edward Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé
modern print on sepia-toned Veribrom paper, 1918
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Lytton Strachey; Ralph Partridge
probably by Dora Carrington
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG x13169
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1920
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Lytton Strachey; Dora Carrington
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1920s
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Michael Llewelyn Davies; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Michael Llewelyn Davies; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140736
Lytton Strachey; Janie Bussy; Marjorie Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1921
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Strachey
Related People
Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
Christopher Strachey (nephew)
James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
Sir John Strachey (uncle)
John Strachey (nephew)
Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
Marjorie Strachey (sister)
Oliver Strachey (brother)
(Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
Ralph Strachey (brother)
Sir Richard Strachey (father)
Richard John Strachey (brother)
Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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